http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml Here is the documentation about how to download the stage 3 file. I'm not a lynx user, but I found it confusing. Wait, am I supposed to use wget within the lynx program? Am I supposed to open up another window so I can simultaneously keep the lynx program open and the wget program open. A far easier way to document this is to say command > lynx http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo Use the tab button to go to the right directory. Highlight the appropriate stage you want to download Press D which will initiate the download. This is pretty basic stuff, but newbies like me can trip over it. Code listing 8.1: Downloading Required Stages # cd /mnt/gentoo Use lynx to get the URL for your tarball # lynx http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x86/ # wget insert required stage tarball here.
Normally, this is a choose thing. You can either use wget or lynx. wget is used from the command line, and it is the easier/better of the two imho. //zhen
Lynx is just a particular case. wget is the documented way. everybody is free to use lynx, links, w3m etc. for download. why to change the docs for this?
Well, there's a lot of things to document, and you are free to prioritize. But the documentation as it stands is incorrect. It won't do what you want it to do. If you ran the commands as is, lynx wouldn't go back to the command line and you would be unable to run wget. You need to open up another command line to run wget. You skipped over a step or two here. Or you need to say that you can use either wget or lynx. This is an annoyance thing and many installers probably won't be sidetracked by this. But for new users/installers, details like these matter.
Are you happy now? Can I close the bug? Code listing 8.1: Downloading Required Stages # cd /mnt/gentoo Use lynx to get the URL for your tarball: # lynx http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x86/ Use Up and Down arrows keys (or the TAB key) to go to the right directory Highlight the appropriate stage you want to download Press d which will initiate the download Save the file and quit the browser OR use wget from the command line: # wget insert URL to the required stage tarball here
No, response. Maybe that means "yes". So will close the bug.
